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In 2007, I joined the Urban Challenge that was run by the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (Darpa) to test and develop autonomous vehicles (AVs). I vividly remember the first moment our car, Junior, drove by itself in the parking lot using software I was working on just hours before. That was a watershed moment for me. It became clear that this was the most impactful and interesting engineering problem of our age, one I’ve dedicated all my time to ever since....

In a rare move, officials have sanctioned seven alleged members of notorious ransomware gangs and published their real-world names, dates of birth, email addresses, and photos. All seven of the named cybercriminals are said to belong to the Conti and Trickbot ransomware groups, which are linked and often jointly referred to as Wizard Spider. Moreover, the UK and US are now explicitly calling out links between Conti and Trickbot and Russia’s intelligence services....

That was why her team was here: to study the fly-repelling power of stripes. Inside the box hung two foot-wide pelts from carcasses found nearby. One was from a tan impala. The other was from a zebra. In between the two was a petri dish trapping 20 or so flies. A teammate tugged on a fishing line, yanking the dish open. The flies scattered and found new landing spots within seconds....

The Internet has played a vital role in connecting the people and in bringing them closer to each other. Thanks to this amazing network that connectivity has increased and every gadget today is linked to the internet and further to the whole world. Devices that make use of the internet are easy to connect to and they help you establish connections to the outside world. Webcams have recently evolved in the past few years and have proved themselves to be highly useful for making video calls and for connecting people to the other people....

As a baseline vehicle without touchscreen infotainment, Vi Bilägare gave a 2005 Volvo V70 some time off from schlepping furniture and strollers. While the V70’s center stack is essentially an anvil compared to modern cars’ touchscreens, it’s still a fairly busy traditional dashboard with plenty of buttons and knobs. The team at Vi Bilägare chose a litany of fairly simple tests for drivers to perform. The first was an obvious winter morning routine of turning on the heated seat, bumping up HVAC temperature by two degrees Celsius (3....

How? Google My Business is an essential tool that lets you manage your brand’s visibility and overall performance in the search engines. It is free, incredibly user-friendly, lead-generating and best of all, it gets you to Google Maps, Google+ and even pushes you higher in the organic Search results! According to a 2017 report, Google My Business remains to be the most substantial driver of local SEO success. Top 5 Benefits of Google My Business 1....

In keeping with the general theme of sucking, I think I’d like to pick a Mercury that many, many people would likely say sucks: the Mercury Bobcat. They’d likely say this because the Bobcat was a re-badged Ford Pinto, a car that’s best known for having a design flaw so egregious and dangerous, and the handling of it so callous and bungled that the whole thing is now tort law legend....

Rolls-Royce calls this an “Ultra-Luxury Electric Super Coupé” and fits the role played by the Phantom Coupé, which explains why it looks exactly like a Phantom Coupé. The great success of Rolls-Royce has been due in large part to making exceptional cars that still feel very much like the cars they are supposed to be. Perhaps it’s the misfortune of debuting next to the stunning and wild Cadillac Celistiq, but the weight of tradition bears down so overwhelmingly on the Spectre that we’ve ended up with a car that I am sure is phenomenal and also doesn’t move me (though I am not the intended audience and based upon the interior colors I’m assuming the first car was purchased for the rich baron Lord Ronald McDonald)....

To do this, you will need to have the best restaurants equipment and professional cooking products that are currently available. The Top Restaurant Equipment Items to Help You Succeed Whether you are opening your new establishment or want to improve your current restaurant, these items will help you keep your customers happy. Restaurant Gas Range Gas ranges are ideal for professional chefs because they help you control the amount of heat produced, which results in precise cooking....

On February 21, the nine justices heard oral arguments in the case of Gonzalez v. Google, a case brought by Reynaldo Gonzalez, whose daughter was killed in a 2015 ISIS terror attack in Paris and who alleges that YouTube’s algorithm aided in the attack by recommending the group’s recruitment videos to people who would be most susceptible to their message. The outcome of the case could decide the future of social media platforms worldwide....

In 2015, a study in Nature Genetics introduced a surprising new possibility: Perhaps weight and education are so intimately connected because they share some of the same genetic roots. Using enormous collections of genetic data, the study’s authors searched for pairs of traits that were correlated with the same genes. For each pair they calculated a metric called “genetic correlation,” which quantifies just how similar the whole set of genes linked to one trait is to that linked to another trait....

Welcome back to Holy Grails, the Autopian series where we show off some of the coolest, most underrated cars that you love. Now that this series has run long enough, I’m beginning to see a trend in the vehicles being sent in. It seems that our readers really love vehicles from that time when Chrysler was experimenting with turbocharging. Ford and Chevrolet also get some love with interesting versions of their trucks and vans....

A class-action lawsuit filed in a federal court in California this month takes aim at GitHub Copilot, a powerful tool that automatically writes working code when a programmer starts typing. The coder behind the suit argues that GitHub is infringing copyright because it does not provide attribution when Copilot reproduces open-source code covered by a license requiring it. The lawsuit is at an early stage, and its prospects are unclear because the underlying technology is novel and has not faced much legal scrutiny....

When looking to install a home security system, you may not know where to start since there are many products in the market. These are the top 5 home security systems that you should consider. Frontpoint Home Security System When installing a home security system for the first time, you want something that is not only affordable but also easy to install. Frontpoint Home Security System ticks all the right boxes as far as affordability, quick installation, and ease of use are concerned....

Before Monster Energy sponsorship, liveries by famous artists, and even Subaru Rally Team USA, there was the white and gold Vermont SportsCar DC Shoes WRX STI. Not only does the Peter Stevens-designed blobeye facelift still look sharp today, but Block’s 2005 livery was also absolutely off the chain. Snow camo was something completely different in 2005. Nobody had it on their Carolina-squatted brodozer, plus Block’s pattern was particularly subtle. Then there’s the gold: Fast Subarus and gold wheels go together like nachos and tequila, and bringing those gold wheels into the livery was a great way to honor Subaru’s heritage while doing something very different from the iconic 555 WRC livery....

Well, three in Europe, and 31 out of the 50 States of America. Definitely two rear license plates no matter where you were. What’s going on here? Why would this car need an extra license plate at the rear? There’s a hint of the answer in this picture: It’s subtle, but do you see the extra license plate there? It’s laying flat, at a 90° angle to the normally-positioned license plate there....

I’ve seen a pair of Dangel 4×4 Peugeot 505 Breaks in the Peugeot Museum in Sochaux, but I don’t know much of the history. I found this article that’s been translated from AutoWeek NL to be quite interesting. First, a bit of background: Cool, but why the 4×4 wagon? ssion for motorsport. He developed a racing car under his own steam: the Mangouste. The design was very similar to the Lotus 23, but with the engine in the back....

The really crazy part is that the track conditions sucked. Not only was the tarmac damp in many spots, there was dirt on the track in spots like Kesselchen, and Mercedes-AMG claims in a press release that the session was shortened due to weather delays. Apparently, by the time the track had somewhat dried out, Mercedes-AMG only had time for four fast laps. These aren’t the ideal conditions you’d want to set a lap record in, yet here we are....

This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED security writer Lily Hay Newman joins the show to talk about what could happen if Twitter gets breached by hackers. Read Lily’s story about the problems with Twitter’s SMS two-factor authentication. Read all of WIRED’s recent Twitter coverage. Lily recommends Wicked protein bars, specifically the maple flavor. Lauren recommends Andy Greenberg’s book Tracers in the Dark. (WIRED has published a few excerpts.) Mike recommends the show The Sandman on Netflix....

Deconstructing Mobile and Tablet Gaming 2019 The report states that 60% of Americans and Canadians regularly play mobile games. This accounts for a total of 210.9 million individuals, a 5% increase from 2017. For this data, EEDAR surveyed 5,000 US and Canadian mobile gamers, all of whom qualified for the study by having a mobile gaming device and playing a game within 30 days of the survey. Data Breakdown One of the most interesting elements of the EEDAR report is the gender breakdown, as the number of female and male mobile gamers was almost the same, with 51% of mobile gamers throughout 2018 in the US and Canada being female, while 49% were male....